Sexed Up Barbie Seeks Tween Girls Approval [Mattel Hooches Up X-Mas Barbie, Selling to 7-8 Yr. Olds]

Toronto Globe and Mail ^ | Tuesday, November 19, 2002 | John Heinzl

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Are these jeans tight enough for you Ken?

Aiming to win back tween girls who would rather watch music videos and chat on the Interet than play with dolls, Mattel Inc. is giving 43 year old Barbie an image makeover that would make Christina Aguilera proud.

Forget prom dresses and flight attendant outfits.

Bring on the crop tops. low riding jeans and bare midriffs.

'My Scene' Barbie and her fashionable companions Chelsea (!) and Madison, are set to arrive at Canadian stores before Christmas.

Selling for about $25.00, the toys are an attemptto revive Barbie's popularity with precocious preteen girls who wouldn't be caught dead playing with dolls.

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Trailer trash Barbie?

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Oh look! A Barbie whore!!

[PennsylvaniaMom]

Trailer trash Barbie?

Like fer shure...Skank Barbie.

[SouthernFreebird]

Hey...... I'll have you know I live in a trailer and I don't look nuthing like that ;-)

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Sounds good to me. They should market the Drunken College Sophomore Barbie and the Berkeley Pothead Barbie.

[Behind Liberal Lines]

With all due respect, when hasn't Barbi been "sexed up"?

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Barbie's new role model..

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values war ping

[sharktrager]

Everyone knows that Barbie is a hooker.

How else do you explain the expensive clothes, all the costumes, the corvette, the beachhouse and the thousands of dollars of plastic surgery. She's just a high price whore.

And Ken...he's gay.

[Henchster]

"'My Scene' Barbie and her fashionable companions Chelsea and Madison,.."

So now Barbie has a horse-faced trailer-trash friend and a probable lesbian "significant other?"

[ladylib]

She just looks so dirty.

[chance33_98]

Do they have a blow up barbie (no, I don't mean the muslim type that explodes...)

[Cicero]

We have numerous children, and none of them ever had a Barbie, still less a Ken. Stuffed animals are their thing. And Lego people.

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More from the article..'The ad campaign for the launch includes a giant billboard in Times Square with tongue in cheek copy lines such as They Can Never be too Tight-Chelsea on Friendships'

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Too dirty to clean her act up, I believe.

[spycatcher]

A Generation of Skanks

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'My Scene Dolls, which are not replacing the familiar Barbie , feature extra pouty lips and oversized eyes that were inspired by Japanese-style anime cartoons

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How do we know that Madison is a lesbian?

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I always wondered about Ken with his red car and missing body parts

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Whoever that woman is, she doesnt have enough clothes on, at least not where they are needed!